How to apply for Guangzhou appearance patent?

appearance patent is one of the types of patent application. For different patents, the review process stipulated by law is different. Compared with the invention patent, the appearance patent has fewer examination procedures and is easier to apply. The relative protection time is also relatively short, and the protection period of appearance patent is 1 years. However, due to the simple application process of appearance patent, it is welcomed by the applicant. The following small series will introduce you how to apply for Guangzhou appearance patent. How to apply for Guangzhou appearance patent? How to apply for Guangzhou appearance patent? 1. Confirm the type of patent to be applied. 2, search the same type of patent, can search independently, can also entrust an agency to search more comprehensively. 3. Prepare application documents and submit them to the application step. 4. Get the acceptance notice. 5. Preliminary review. In the preliminary examination, it is necessary to examine whether there are obvious defects in the application, mainly including whether the examination content falls within the scope of not granting patent rights in the Patent Law, whether the obvious lack of technical content cannot constitute a technical scheme, whether there is a lack of oneness, whether the application documents are complete and whether the format meets the requirements. If an application for a patent for invention passes the preliminary examination, a notice of passing the preliminary examination will be issued. In addition to the above-mentioned examination, the application for a patent for utility model and design should also be examined whether it is obviously the same as the existing patent, not a new technical scheme or a new design, and no reason for rejection has been found after preliminary examination. Will directly enter the authorization order. 6. Authorization stage. After the utility model and design pass the examination in the fifth step, they can directly enter the authorization stage.